Solid Ground // Saša Jurić
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as the best short overview of why the BEAM and Elixir stand apart from other runtimes.
What it is
Sasa Juric's EMPEX talk demonstrates Elixir and Erlang's process model and what makes the BEAM runtime distinctive, such as fault-tolerant parallelism by design.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2017 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec h0l0cube · 2023-09 · on “My favorite Erlang program (2013)”
This was in a top level comment on this post. It perfectly articulates what sets Erlang/BEAM/Elixir apart from other runtimes/languages. Essentially performant, fault-tolerant parallelism by design. [this video] If you need to break out into SIMD, you also have NX at your disposal. And Rustler/Zigler provide you an escape hatch to low-level languages, with the latter you can code in Zig inline [LINK] [LINK] [LINK]
Recommends auxbuss · 2017-12 · on “Elixir multiple processes: Basics”
Saša Jurić's Solid Ground talk is a lovely demonstration of Elixir's processes: [this video] (Saša is also the author of Elixir in Action; a highly recommend read once you have your head around Elixir's fundamentals.)
Recommends rehemiau · 2018-01 · on “Elixir v1.6 released: code formatter, dynamic supervisors, and more”
For people wondering about what Elixir and the BEAM are offering, for a quick overview of the best features of this stack see [this talk]( [this video] ). If anyone starts learning Elixir now: I can recommend using VSCode with ElixirLS extension. Also: pragprog books, Sasa Juric's book. If you like video tutorials I've heard good things about PragDave's course.